We want to thank ALL
of you who are visiting the Beanteacher.com website for the first time, as
well as, ALL of our new friends who visit on a regular basis. We've met some
really GREAT people from all over the world and look forward to meeting many
more in the future. The internet makes the world seem just a tad smaller.

By day, I'm a middle-school
teacher in Southern California (that explains the "Teacher" part, anyway.....).
As for the "Bean" part, let's start from the very beginning.....

Where
the Bean Came From

It all
started as a gift...I received "Echo", a dolphin Beanie Baby, as a gift from
my husband. I love dolphins (I'm sure you can tell)! I put him aside and realized
months later...Beanies Rule the World! I began checking out the Beanie books,
magazines and websites - I had to have them ALL. And now, I have way too many
to mention. They quickly took over my house and my life. If you'd like to
ADOPT one or two, please email. Soon, I began buying and selling Beanies and
other plush toys on auction sites like Ebay.....that's where I came up with
the handle "bean-teacher".

Soon, I began catching
ALOHA fever!! Oh, my! I now buy and sell a piece of paradise - Hawaiian Aloha
Shirts. My husband was born and raised on Oahu, so we travel back to the Hawaiian
Islands often and return with several hundred Aloha Shirts at any given time.
We now have customers from all over the United States, and around the world,
including Canada, Great Britain (Hello Ian!), the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland,
Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia. And yes, we even have a valued set
of regular customers from Hawaii as well!

Beanteacher.com
Sprouts!

Soon,
my Ebay customers began asking me about my "website", and wanted to know about
my other merchandise. So, based on customer input, my husband and I embarked
on the road to "E-commerce", and opened the Beanteacher.com website in August
of 2001 after several months of preparation. We're continuing to expand our
offerings, so please excuse some of the construction going on. However, when
we are fully stocked, we plan on offering New Brand Name Hawaiian Shirts,
Vintage Shirts, Bowling Shirts, Hawaii-themed gift items, plush toys, and
of course…Beanies.

In the meantime, please
feel free to look around, and if you'd like, drop us a line to say "Hello"
sometime! If there's anything you'd like to see on this site, by all means
let us know. Thanks again for stopping by.....pull up a chair, put on some
sunglasses, sip a Mai Tai, and stay for awhile!